Buckley feels that in disparaging Broadway, Jackson displays an ignorance of singing styles, and casts an inappropriately negative light on the Great White Way.

“Broadway is a place, not a style of singing,” Buckley tells the Post. “Whenever he doesn’t like something, he just throws in that ‘this is a Broadway voice.’ I don’t know how many Broadway shows Randy Jackson has been to, but clearly not many, because there’s a wide variety of shows on Broadway.”

Buckley says that Jackson’s Broadway reticence – especially ironic given how many former Idol contestants wind up performing there – stems from his dislike and misunderstanding of vocal vibrato.

Buckley was especially angered by Jackson’s comments because she feels they could undermine the dreams of aspiring singers.

“You’re a young kid, a good singer, you go to these auditions, and Randy Jackson says, ‘you’re too Broadway.’ Then this kid, who had dreams of going into musical theater, says, ‘I don’t wanna be in musical theater because Randy Jackson thinks it’s not cool.’”